Famous quotes containing the words harris, learning and/or library:
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)
“Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity—both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)